Celebrating Rochester Street's giant cottonwood tree: 1901-2018

There was the time Lynn Griffiths found four small boys in her backyard tree, near the north end of Rochester Street. The tree was a towering old eastern cottonwood. The boys were bad boys.
“I had just bought the house. I was single and I came home one day and there were a bunch of kids in the tree,” she recalled this week. She didn’t know any of them.
They had taken apart her clothes-drying rack and ripped some pickets off her fence and nailed the pieces on the tree to build s